Word: modish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's French Department is not highly regarded, because it is viewed as a hotbed of modish feminist criticism," Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam wrote in a February op-ed piece...
...trend in Bond movies could actually be more of an Americanization than simply a commercialization. Nowadays there are a lot more big explosions--hallmarks of Hollywood action hits such as "Die Hard" and "Lethal Weapon"--and fewer screwy plot twists and secret hideouts. Moreover, the modish European aesthetic of the '60s and '70s has given way to American-style glamor. What was once slick and suave is now just overkill. As the end result, we have only the gloating of an automobile manufacturer...
...Harvard's French Department is not highly regarded, because it is viewed as a hotbed of modish feminist criticism," he writes...
Fashion is in a particularly ugly, aimless, self-parodying phase at the moment, so perhaps it deserves a chronicler as cynical as this one. Anyway, a cynic is what it got during the industry's big pret-a-porter shows in Paris last spring, when Altman mingled with the modish elite and found room in his film for many of them: designers Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier and Issey Miyake, models Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington and CNN fashion maven Elsa Klensch...
According to Murray, a job seeker should "think about the industry" before choosing a wardrobe. While corporate jobs like consulting and accounting generally mandate traditional business wear, other careers, such as retail, accept more modish apparel...